This page lists multiple methods to installing Nomad locally or in a sandbox environment.
These installations are designed to get you started with Nomad easily and should be used only for experimentation purposes. If you are looking to install Nomad in production, please refer to the Production Installation guide here.
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Install Nomad on the public cloud.
AWS
Azure
If you would like to try Nomad locally, you can install Nomad on your local
machine using the same steps that you would for a production environments and
run a single-node development instance using the nomad agent -dev command
Note: If you are using Docker Desktop for Windows or MacOS, please check our FAQ.
Alternatively, you can use a Vagrant to set up a development environment for Nomad. Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments.
Note: To use the Vagrant environment, first install Vagrant following these instructions. You will also need a virtualization tool, such as VirtualBox.
You can download a Vagrantfile which can start a small Nomad cluster. First create a new directory for your Vagrant environment.
$ mkdir nomad-vagrant
$ mkdir nomad-vagrant
Change into the directory you made with the previous command.
$ cd nomad-vagrant
$ cd nomad-vagrant
Now you can get the Nomad installation configuration.
$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hashicorp/nomad/master/demo/vagrant/Vagrantfile
$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hashicorp/nomad/master/demo/vagrant/Vagrantfile
Now that you have created a new directory and downloaded the Vagrantfile
you must create the virtual machine with the vagrant up command.
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant up
This takes a few minutes as the base Ubuntu box must be downloaded and provisioned with both Docker and Nomad. Once this completes, you should see this output.
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Importing base box 'bento/ubuntu-18.04'... ... ==> default: Running provisioner: docker...
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Importing base box 'bento/ubuntu-18.04'...
...
==> default: Running provisioner: docker...
At this point the Vagrant box is running and ready to go.